Deborah Florence Glassford Letters and Memorabilia
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wioored[?] for France were to be in Shorncliffe | wioored[?] for France were to be in Shorncliffe | ||
Station at 9.30 am Wednesday, of course | Station at 9.30 am Wednesday, of course | ||
| − | we were all as | + | we were all as cheery as men could possibly be. |
About 2.30 Tuesday afternoon the list | About 2.30 Tuesday afternoon the list | ||
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East Sandling
Kent
7 Augt 1916
My dear old Dodie,
The very worst has happened - No, not what you think, but something much worse - My name was deleted from the list of Officers sent over to France last Wednesday.
On the Tuesday morning definitive information came through Kent all officers wioored[?] for France were to be in Shorncliffe Station at 9.30 am Wednesday, of course we were all as cheery as men could possibly be.
About 2.30 Tuesday afternoon the list came in, & my name was not there. I at once thought it was a clerical error, & [?]d to the Brigade Office, & in about 1/2 hours I learned that it was not a clerical error - By June I then got busy - I again went to the Bde Office & got them to telephone to the Reinforcement officer & got to confirmed. I ran out, got a horse & followed over to Shorncliffe to Divisional Headquarters, there foundout that wmy name had been sent through with all the others to the War Office, that it came back with my name & several others cut out. As he is the highest [ ?] here to [ ? ] anything, I could do no more. Whether he was lying, of course I can't tell.